Villanova University

Villanova, PA

Villanova says the goal of its Core Curriculum is "to achieve a synthesis of knowledge that provides a basis for informed judgment. The Core also seeks to promote literacy as a foundation for intelligent discourse and the articulation of informed views. The Core aims to train students to understand and to appreciate the interrelated patterns of customary beliefs and practices, social forms, aesthetics, and material traits that act to define a culture and its position within a larger historical and intellectual framework." [Source]

General Education Requirements

  • 1. Composition

    YES

  • 2. Literature

    YES

  • 3. Foreign Language

    YES

  • 4. U.S. Government or History

    NO

    See Note

    No credit given for U.S. Government or History because the required History course, "Themes in Modern World History," though admirable, is not a survey of American History.

  • 5. Economics

    NO

  • 6. Mathematics

    YES

  • 7. Science

    YES

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